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Bikers find missing man ‘barely hanging on’
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Paul Kerr has been located and taken to hospital after mountain bikers discovered him pinned beneath his motorcycle near St. Mary’s Lake on Tuesday evening. Kerr, who had been missing since Sunday, was taken to East Koo-
tenay Regional Hospital, but his current condition is unknown, however, one of the mountain bikers who found him says he’s lucky to be alive. Warren Boychuk, a native of Sherwood Park, was biking in the area with some friends when they found him
just off the St. Mary’s Lake Road, roughly five kilometres outside Kimberley. “He was barely hanging on,” Boychuk said. “He had all the signs that he was a goner. “There was flies everywhere, the smell wasn’t too hot and his
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eyes were kind of bugged out and he was foaming at the mouth.” The group split up as one member went to the St. Mary’s Lake Resort to call for help while Boychuk and others stayed to lift the 2009 BMW motorcycle off him and wait for emergency services.
“When he heard the sirens, he kind of got excited and was flinching around. “I just told him to relax and that everything was going to be okay,” Boychuk said. Kerr had been missing since Sunday after failing to report in from a planned trip across
the Gray Creek Pass with his motorbike.
See BIKERS, Page 5 SCHOOL DISTRICT 5
School board slams Bill 11, wage freeze TRE VOR CR AWLEY
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A competitor has help peeling off his wetsuit after completing the swim portion of the 2015 Gerick Sports Wasa Triathlon at Wasa Lake Provincial Park on Sunday, June 14. For more on the 2015 Wasa Triathlon, see Page 8.
The SD5 school board has sent letters off to various government ministries as it took issue with wages for exempt staff and Bill 11 at a recent meeting. According to the SD5 board chair Frank Lento, Bill 11— which was enacted into law earlier in March — was rushed through through the legislature and lacked consultation. “Changes to the School Act dilute the decision-making powers of locally elected Boards of Education while providing board and unprecedented powers to a sole individual, the government-appointed Minister of Education,” said Lento.
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